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I think it must be an old model that they don't make anymore, since it's all stuff out of stock on these hunting suppply websites. I think this is the same plug, I've seen a lot of plugs... O-o
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Now I know what I'm looking for if I something at a thrift store or trash pile :D

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It's been *very* handy the last few weeks both for its intended purpose and as a clamp.

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A tool for bending metal.
"very handy last few weeks" ... building greenhouses?

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Robert's got it!
I've been rebuilding 4x8' bottomless shelters to get mommy ducks on grass with whatever they hatched for me - I use Muscovy as moms because they're so good at it, but so far have given them goose eggs, Muscovy eggs, or Khaki Campbell eggs. One of the shelters needed a pop-door as a retrofit, and I used the notcher to make a "birds mouth" on both ends of a piece of pipe so I could screw through the tabs to the vertical pipes rather than having to take more space up by using "T" fittings. If people want a picture of that, I will have to ask Mom - as soon as I had the shelter finished and in the field, Mom + 3 day-old Khaki ducklings moved in.

@ John Shong - Hubby bought a really impressive bending tool for tubes and we've used it for hoops over some raised beds that allow me to add either row cover or bird netting easily. It takes more hand strength to operate than I've got unfortunately, as I could use about 10 more hoops, particularly with the wet spring we're having.

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Jay, I'd love to see photos of your duck houses. We've been building chicken tractors with wooden frames, but now that I think about it there is a pipe bender around here too....wonder if that's cheaper/easier.

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I bought some kind of odd brass screen looking stuff. It's woven, the warp (the long lines) are brass wire, the weft (the horizontal lines) are a black polyester looking thread. It's so flexible it's closer to fabric than screen.
It's 24 inches wide, there are two pieces, one about 25 feet long, one about 12 feet long. It was at a thrift store for $6.00.

What is it's real name? What was it made for? What does anyone else do with it? I got it for weird reasons and am trying to figure out if it will work for what I want, or what else it would be good for. Any input would help! :D

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Speaker fabric... maybe. Like what hides the big speakers on a church wall.
Although, this would not hide them well.

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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:Speaker fabric... maybe. Like what hides the big speakers on a church wall.
Although, this would not hide them well.

I have not looked at speaker cover fabric in years, but when I last did, it was actually fabric, not metal. This is definitely metal wire woven with a polyester thread.
And yeah, it's really transparent, wouldn't hide much. I had a hard time getting those pictures, I had to go find a solid light colored backdrop, as it just disappeared on anything else.

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some kind of filtering material, maybe? brass is spendy and oxidizes easily so it would have to be a really specific purpose to bother using brass specifically. (and yet, in my house I'm constantly finding wacky uses for screen-like fabric, I bet you are too. If it's actually slightly bendy because of the metal content, it would be fabulous for covering fruit bushes)

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Thinking on it, I'm using the term "brass" loosely. It's brass/gold toned colored, definitely metal wire, very fine gauge. May or may not be actual brass. I'm not sure what else it could be.
But I am using the word brass colloquially, not chemically.

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My guess is it is Faraday fabric aka EMF shielding fabric that is meant to block electromagnetic radiation.

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I saw that a lot of these fabrics include copper, nickel and polyester in their materials list, by the way. That would explain why it looks like brass but maybe not exactly like brass which is copper and zinc.

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Andrea Locke wrote:My guess is it is Faraday fabric aka EMF shielding fabric that is meant to block electromagnetic radiation.

That's what I'm hoping for, and why I bought it. It's soft enough I might be able to make undergarments out of it. I'm having a lot of EMF pollution issues these days. I have a tester, but haven't gotten any rational numbers yet, need to find a more stable source of EMF to test with.

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Andrea Locke wrote:My guess is it is Faraday fabric aka EMF shielding fabric that is meant to block electromagnetic radiation.

That's what I'm hoping for, and why I bought it. It's soft enough I might be able to make undergarments out of it. I'm having a lot of EMF pollution issues these days. I have a tester, but haven't gotten any rational numbers yet, need to find a more stable source of EMF to test with.

I tested quite a few areas on a property I was considering buying a few years ago that was crossed by a power transmission line. If you have any big transmission towers near you those should give you a strong signal if you stand under the lines. Might not be a great idea to expose yourself to that much EMF if you’re sensitive to it though. Perhaps wrap yourself in the fabric first!

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Andrea Locke wrote:

I tested quite a few areas on a property I was considering buying a few years ago that was crossed by a power transmission line. If you have any big transmission towers near you those should give you a strong signal if you stand under the lines. Might not be a great idea to expose yourself to that much EMF if you’re sensitive to it though. Perhaps wrap yourself in the fabric first!

I'm not in need of anything that complex to test with. I'll probably use the neighbor's satellite TV dish. It screams pretty loud. I only bought the stuff yesterday, haven't had time to test it.

And I avoid power lines, I deliberately bought land that is far away from them. I mapped them as we property shopped. I can hear the big ones a long ways away, up to a mile for the huge lines that cross the desert west of Phoenix between Palo Verde power plant and Phoenix. 1/4 mile is average for me.

Really hoping someone will recognize this so I have more data to work with.

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Pearl,
I've been scouring the interwebs trying to figure out what, exactly, you have. I've learned an awful lot about how many different ways you can describe a wire-poly mesh fabric in a search engine. I've discovered a wide range of very special mesh providers and am currently being entertained with all kinds of crafty ideas.

You should be fine to use it as a Faraday cage. Or sturdy support lining for a fabric or paper creation, or just about anything where a stiffener that's still breathable might be useful.
Be careful washing it, and make sure it's lined or you'll get the world's WORST rub sores. I shudder just thinking about it!
I found this link (https://www.mcnichols.com/wire-mesh/square/brass-brs-391618?rbl=89101280&cId=177) as something that looks vaguely the same. It's a brass alloyed wire woven mesh fabric.
(There's this pic, too (https://www.mcnichols.com/wire-mesh/square/copper-cu-339945?fsp=Y) which is just pretty.) I'm imagining jewelry made from it. That doesn't help you, but it's a thing.

I've seen it, that same stuff with its confusing make-up, somewhere. I just can't remember where! Let me think about it and I'll see if something can jog my memory.
I've learned that Bing thinks it's a silk blend. Google thinks it's craft ribbon (and is VERY insistent on that fact), and DuckDuckGo will happily throw all kinds of oddities my way (or I'm not limiting my search well enough ...) I have some more search engines, image lookups, and memory joggers to try.

I can tell you what it's NOT. It's not speaker fabric, fake fur, linen (even if Bing is rather insistent), silk, or jute. It's also not woven rattan, and it's not anything typically used for repairing lint traps, sieves, or sifter/strainers. It might be used in paper making. It might be great for a window screen repair, a specialty filter material, or making a flour screening filter/sifter (or anything else you desire) to be as fine as the mesh. Most of the collector meshes were a bit finer in thread and weave, and many of the other general-purpose meshes are a bit more coarse.

What it *is*, however, is still up for grabs.
This is a fun search, so I'll keep going.

And I almost knew what it was for a second. Some kind of interfacing. I think. RFID fabric-like. I'll keep looking.

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Kristine Keeney wrote:Or sturdy support lining for a fabric or paper creation.

This was my thought. It looks like a paper making screen. But the roll is quite small. Maybe it was a cut-off?

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New hypothesis: It's electrostatic filtering. Apparently, those are custom cut to fit a particular screen, so having a supply of loose material wouldn't be a surprise.
Or some other reusable filter thing.
Or really expensive fancy crinoline.
Not window screening. That's standardized and not for a 24" wide anything.

Maybe a reusable coffee filter?
Have fun with it.

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Sculpting armature cloth.

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I'm thinking it might be a composite reinforcement material. Do you have any aerospace industry near you? Seems unlikely that a technical fabric like that should have made it's way into a thrift store, but strange things do happen! I gather that metal is sometimes used for lightning strike avoidance in aeroplanes. A unidirectional metal thread would have better drapeability I think than a bidirectional fabric.
The other possibility I've found is a heating fabric like these
If it helps, you seem to have a hybrid fabric, what a wonderful find what ever it is!

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This is being more complicated than I expected!
It's not the heating stuff, but oooh, I'll try it for something like that! It won't wire up to a power source like that stuff does. BUT, it might spread heat in the bed or something... It'll get experimented on!

Not tough enough for lightning strike or electrical conductivity.

I tried using it to block EMF, and got puzzling results, not sure at all what they mean. Need to try it under different conditions. What I kept getting is it blocked well, then I move it, put it back, and it won't any more. At least 6 different locations and settings, that same reaction. No CLUE what that might mean. Might mean my tester is weirder than I think it is, might mean it has to be in an exact position, might mean the fever I'm dealing with is tangling up my understanding. Really uncertain.

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I thought these were beautiful, so I had to buy them. I had to look them up myself. Their modern equivalents don't look half as stylish.

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Some kind of faucet filter or aerator.

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Robert Ray wrote:Some kind of faucet filter or aerator.

Yep, water filters!

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Cool!
And image searching the term "Vintage water filter" hits some pretty things!
Awesome buy, Jordan! :D

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There are many designs to do this job, many of which don't impress me much (lack of longevity). So this isn't so much "what is it" as "how does it work"?

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Jay Angler wrote:There are many designs to do this job, many of which don't impress me much (lack of longevity). So this isn't so much "what is it" as "how does it work"?

We have a few of these - one of which I've had for almost 20yrs. I love this little whisk! It gets into a small opening, or container (like a mug), to really blend things together well. Just plant the base in firmly against the bottom of the vessel, grab the handle, and pump. There's a spring-loaded corkscrew type interior, that forces the whisk to spin, as you pump down, then automatically reverses itself, as you release pressure.

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Carla Burke wrote: I love this little whisk! It gets into a small opening, or container (like a mug), to really blend things together well. Just plant the base in firmly against the bottom of the vessel, grab the handle, and pump. There's a spring-loaded corkscrew type interior, that forces the whisk to spin, as you pump down, then automatically reverses itself, as you release pressure.

I should have guessed you would have "a few" - I consider myself lucky to have one! The traditional "beater" style whisks are much harder for me to operate with the tiny handle for turning. I have a "pump" style salad spinner as well and the ergonomics are way better.

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Jay Angler wrote: I should have guessed you would have "a few" - I consider myself lucky to have one! The traditional "beater" style whisks are much harder for me to operate with the tiny handle for turning. I have a "pump" style salad spinner as well and the ergonomics are way better.

I have a tiny one - maybe 8"? A 10", and an 11". The 10" one was from pampered chef(a party sales thing - I was helping out my sister, who was just getting started), and the other two were a 2pc set, I found at the flea market. The pampered chef one is my favorite - a fast, strong spin on that one.

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Dumpster kill that I don't know what they were made for. They came out of a construction dumpster that's parked at the house across the street while they tear out flooring etc. A new heat pump system is being installed, with the round corrugated type ductwork being used.

I'm really not sure these came from that house at all, they are much higher quality than anything that was there or that is being installed there. Possibly the heat pump guys got them off another job and just used the dumpster because they could, or the real estate agent may have tossed them off another house too.

My question on these is how were these meant to be used? If I knew that I'd know more of the parameters that I can use them for. I can't find them online, I obviously am not using the right words to search.

Help! :D

Only one like this. Triangular side profile, mounting mouth is approx 27.5 x 12 inches, there are two metal screen vents, like a stove uses, totally clean, no grease. It ~may~ have been installed, but doesn't look very used at all, might not have ever been installed. Probably a stove hood? If so, definitely not off this house, WAY too nice to come out of there. This puppy is HEAVY. Sorry about sloppy angle of pictures, didn't want to move it a lot to take them. It's heavy. :D

Two like this. Triangular side profile, mounting mouth is approx 17.5 x 11.5 inches, there are three drop flap type closures, still with the protective tape on the gaskets on the edges. Never been installed. Again, these are HEAVY beasties, not cheap items. When the flaps (that open inward) are closed, the ductwork for it would be going downward.

What were these meant to do? I'd love to be able to look them up, I swear they are not cheap items, and made to do something more interesting than would be used in that house across the street. Commercial use is way more likely. That's sturdy metal, they really are heavy creatures. I'm really puzzled to have found them where I did. And they are new?! Interesting....

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They look like commercial cooker hoods/vents that would have been fitted with a big blower to suck out steam, grease and smoke from cooking and dump it outside. Even the cheapo models found in houses have quite a nice stainless steel mesh.

Whether they are this, or something else, they look like a great dumpster find!

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The 'one' is small, for any commercial kitchen I've worked in, but would be a perfect size for a food truck. The 'two' would most likely have been the exhaust vent covers for the same system. Very nice find!

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I’m very excited that this new tool joined my household this week. It’ll get its own thread once we get a missing part fabricated and it’s in use, but in the meantime…anyone else know what it is?

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